Example sentences of "they were [adj] [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The research also demonstrated that older workers could maximize their efficiency if they were able to control their own work pace . |
| 2 | Before , they had produced some good samples but this time they were able to show me some fine quality knitwear including knitted underwear . |
| 3 | They were afraid to take me any more . |
| 4 | In such circumstances , they were reluctant to abandon their own positions for a possibly lesser place in a new party in which Ian Paisley would play a major part . |
| 5 | Even if they were willing to see their own power reduced , radical reform is a jump into the unknown . |
| 6 | When they could not get gold for their dollars after 1971 ( the US gold stock fell by only $2½ billion over the whole period ) , they only acquired these dollars because they were prepared to sell their own currencies in order to prevent them rising further . |
| 7 | The control regime was liberalized for computer , machine tool and telecommunications technology ( microcomputer exports having been permitted since August 1989 ) ; companies seeking exceptions to remaining restrictions would have to wait only eight weeks for permission , rather than 12 weeks as hitherto ; and countries such as Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland , if they were prepared to introduce their own controls on use and re-export , might expect more favourable treatment . |